Question

I’m trying to setup a shortcut, a command which will let me check the history of one file.

I’m interested in when the file was originally commited, in what changesets it was changed and whether the current version in the working directory differs from the “last commited one”.

So, in general

 hg log --verbose filename.txt
 hg status filename.txt

Is there a way to make this into a sort of a shortcut, so I can just type for example

hg file filename.txt

and get the “history” of the file?

Answer 1

Yes, you can add a shell alias:

[alias]
file = !$HG log --verbose "$1" && $HG status "$1"

The $HG environment variable refers to the path of the hg script used to invoke the shell alias, just in case hg is not in your path. The $1 refers to the first command line argument, the file name in your case.